Along with our other press releases today, we’ve announced that we’re partnering with Del Ray books to release two novels based on The Elder Scrolls. Both books, will be all-new, original stories written by New York Times bestselling author Greg Keyes (shown above). Star Wars fans may recognize Keyes for his work on the New Jedi Order series.

The first book, “The Infernal City,” is set to release this fall. For more details, check out the official press release.

Update: At Shacknews, Pete Hines discusses working on this project with Greg Keyes in a new interview.

If it’s set *after* Oblivion, then who was named Emperor (since the story stars the youngest of the Emperor’s sons).

Which then gives rise to the question, how *long* after? Given the events that unfolded in Oblivion, and the hero(ine) now a daedric prince, there will no doubt have been some scrambling among the provinces for power and ultimate rulership of Tamriel (with no living heirs left). I personally foresaw a civil war in Tamriel.

Aye, Bethesda, is their no limit to your wonderful ideas? I checked my past spending, and you’ve successfully managed to get me to spend over $1500 from my pocket–just to play your games, have your games, etc,. $300 of that on your games alone, and that’s not even including royalties from other items, I’m sure.

My favorite company. I’ll gladly donate more–with the upcoming DLC, NOVELS…(not to mention that I’ll be purchasing the DLC for my 360 AND my PC for both Oblivion and Fallout 3…), you’ll be getting a whole more. 😀 Yay!

Sevrin: ‘There is nothing new under the sun, no not one thing’. The reality with fantasy lit is that it’s all been done before. But if you can do it in some way that captivates you page by page rather than by an entire plot- you have something.

(this is a litlte weapon that is a bit better than umbra it has no enchantments. It is located in the Bruma fighters guild in the Chest marked the Destroyer. There is one small catch! You need to find the key! It is in the fighters guild somewhere!) How do I find the Destroyer or get it?

My biggest worry is how hard it would be to take a sweepingly “epic” plot and still be able to pace it in a way to put in the nuances of TES lore. it would seem hard to expose and use centuries of racial and religious tension as a plot ddevice when there’s some giant floating unambiguously evil city about to necromance everybody. It could wind up it’s just a generic teen fantasy book with TES names tacked on artificially, like having a charcater shout “by the Nine!” when something happens instead of really having the books *be* in Tamriel.